hired 2 sedan chairs [illegible] along with the porters the 6 miles To Songton where we arrived at 9:30. The country we passed the was chiefly rice fields. About the Penic village werefield guilled, taro beans & other vegetables, on' the roadside grew grovos, [illegible] berdii, ash trees yellow bullets (prongtang) around grapefruit, candle trees which has leaves & bark like our cottonwood. At Songton we found Andrews had moved over to Futting so we had to engage another lot of porters but this [illegible] until noon as the other porters refused to go further. At noon we left Songton & climbed out of the valley & dropped down to Hulanig. The trip over the pass was hot but the roadside was very interesting. Besides a various sorts grew along the roadside. Here chiefly polypodiums were very abundant. A rock with white flowers was abundant. Sword.